Archive for September 10th, 2008

Help out a fellow freelancer: a blog-a-thon for Lori Hall Steele

September 10, 2008
By Diana Burrell
Help out a fellow freelancer: a blog-a-thon for Lori Hall Steele

I’m not a big reader of essays, but earlier this year I was pointed to an essay at the Washington Post written by Lori Hall Steele, a freelance writer I know from Freelance Success. By the end of her essay, my heart felt as if it were going to break in two. Go ahead....
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The ugliest words in English

September 10, 2008
By Diana Burrell

Courtesy of WorldHum, I chuckled this afternoon over an article in the UK’s Telegraph, which tells us which English words sound the ugliest to Italians. Topping the list was “weekend.” Those crazy Italianos are kidding, right? Out of all the words we Anglos wield, the Italians alight on weekend? (OT, but I love how...
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